STRIPSLASHES(3) 1 STRIPSLASHES(3)
stripslashes - Un-quotes a quoted string
SYNOPSIS
string stripslashes (string $str)
DESCRIPTION
Un-quotes a quoted string.
Note
If magic_quotes_sybase is on, no backslashes are stripped off but two apostrophes are replaced by one instead.
An example use of stripslashes(3) is when the PHP directive magic_quotes_gpc is on (it was on by default before PHP 5.4), and you aren't
inserting this data into a place (such as a database) that requires escaping. For example, if you're simply outputting data straight from
an HTML form.
PARAMETERS
o $str
- The input string.
RETURN VALUES
Returns a string with backslashes stripped off. ( ' becomes ' and so on.) Double backslashes ( \) are made into a single backslash ( ).
EXAMPLES
Example #1
A stripslashes(3) example
<?php
$str = "Is your name O'reilly?";
// Outputs: Is your name O'reilly?
echo stripslashes($str);
?>
Note
stripslashes(3) is not recursive. If you want to apply this function to a multi-dimensional array, you need to use a recursive func-
tion.
Example #2
Using stripslashes(3) on an array
<?php
function stripslashes_deep($value)
{
$value = is_array($value) ?
array_map('stripslashes_deep', $value) :
stripslashes($value);
return $value;
}
// Example
$array = array("f\'oo", "b\'ar", array("fo\'o", "b\'ar"));
$array = stripslashes_deep($array);
// Output
print_r($array);
?>
The above example will output:
Array
(
[0] => f'oo
[1] => b'ar
[2] => Array
(
[0] => fo'o
[1] => b'ar
)
)
SEE ALSO
addslashes(3), get_magic_quotes_gpc(3).
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